By Sai Sailaja Seshadri
Staff Writer
@saisailu97
Coppell High School’s 2014 Round-Up yearbook was selected to be a part of the Josten’s 2015 Look Book. The Josten’s Look Book is a collection of the best yearbook pictures from around the nation, and CHS is one of the 476 schools chosen.
Round-Up adviser Sallyanne Harris, who has been a yearbook and journalism teacher for 14 years, was informed of the award at the end of Scholastic Journalism week from Feb. 22-28. Harris found out through a press release that is sent out to each winning school discussing what an honor it is to be selected in a competition for which there were almost 3,000 entries.
“I’m so proud of last year’s yearbook staff for being recognized in the nationally recognized Look Book,” Harris said. “It has become a tradition for us to be recognized in this way, but it is nothing to be taken for granted, because the staffers work really hard to create an amazing book that both the student body and judges appreciate.”
Working alongside their adviser, seniors Caroline Boynton, Julia Olson and Maggie Hohfeler are three of the Round-Up editors who have put in all their effort to make the yearbook something that the entire school can enjoy.
“It’s really awesome to see that all of our hard work has paid off,” Boynton said. “I’m very excited to see our yearbook as a part of the Look Book.”
Jostens is a Minneapolis-based company that specializes in high school products such as their yearbooks, class rings, graduation items and athletic items. There are over 15,000 schools that produce yearbooks with Jostens every year, and each one of those will be getting a copy of the Look Book that CHS is being featured in.
“It is very honorable that we got featured in the Look Book,” Olson said. “It is a great avenue for our book to be seen nationally, and it’s just great.”
The 2015 Look Book judge panel consisted of award winning yearbook advisers and scholastic journalism professionals who chose the pictures that would be featured in the 344 page annual book.
“Being honored in the Look Book is really a testament to the entire staff’s hard work and how well everyone worked,” Hohfeler said. “We put so much time and effort into it and it’s just a really cool and special honor.”
